Something’s missing from global file systems
Analysis: Rarely does a CIO say their business has a global file data access problem and they need a supercloud-type global file system to solve it. Yet, arguably, they do...
AWS sets up Lustre-based caching filesystem
AWS is running a Lustre-based caching filesystem to provide fast file access to cloud compute needed to process distributed file and object data sets, including ones on-premise.
Update. AWS' Sébastien...
Hammerspace extends Global Data Environment
Hammerspace has extended its Global Data Environment so that IT operations can set global data policies applying to all data regardless of vendor storage or where it is located,...
Storage news ticker – October 6
Research house IDC has reported that spending on compute and storage infrastructure products for cloud deployments, including dedicated and shared IT environments, increased 22.4 percent year-over-year in the second...
Komprise tells users: Go do it yourself
Komprise has added self-service features for line-of-business (LOB) IT, analytics, and research teams to its unstructured data management software, lessening the burden on admins by giving users controlled read-only...
Gartner: Flash array revenue to overtake HDD
According to Gartner, all-flash-array revenues will pass disk drive and hybrid array revenue next year and grow to 55 percent of all external storage revenues in 2026.
The research house...
Dremio data lakes can run on VAST Data storage
VAST Data has a partnership with Dremio enabling its lakehouse software to run on-premises, accessing data from VAST’s Universal Storage all-flash file and object array.
Dremio’s software runs in-memory and creates...
Quantum enters reseller deal for Atempo backup
Quantum is to resell Atempo’s Tina backup software combined with its backup appliances and other hardware in product bundles.
Atempo’s Tina (Time Navigator) provides on-premises and SaaS backup/restore of physical...
Nodeum scaling up for exabyte environments
Profile: Belgian hierarchical storage manager Nodeum is developing exabyte-scale gen 2 software as it seeks to bolster its channel.
Nodeum software runs on Linux and provides a storage virtualizing control...
Storage news ticker – September 26
Cloudflare’s R2 Storage, a distributed object storage product, is now available to all developers, providing scalable storage with no egress fees. It provides automated migration of data from S3-compatible services to...
Spectra Logic partners with iRODS Consortium
Data preservers need a data store and Spectra Logic plans to provide it, with movement from on-premises tape to disk and cloud object stores a benefit.
It has collaborated with...
MinIO surpasses 1 billion downloads
MinIO has celebrated more than 1 billion downloads of its software, making it the world’s most widely used object storage.
MinIO was started in 2014 to develop cloud-native and open...